The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 472] 
                                  
                                  [Wommen ful trew ful good ful vertuous
                                
                                  Witnes on hem þat dwellen in cristes hous
                                
                                  Wiþ martirdom þey prouyd hir [[MS h]]  constance
                                
                                  The romaygne Iestis maken remembrānce
                                
                                  Of many a verry trewe wyff also
                                
                                  But sire ne be nouȝt wroth as be it soo
                                
                                  þouȝ þat he seide he fond no good womman
                                
                                  I praye ȝow take þe sentence of þe man [Reg. 18 C ii folio 103b]  [[ Not in Harl. 1758, leaf 87; or Harl. 7335, leaf 127; or Sloane 1686, leaf 192, back; but in Addit. 5140, leaf 166, bk; 17 D xv, leaf 121, bk; Sloane 1685, leaf 101; the sheet out of Harl. 7333 (lf72-73).]] ]
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                                  He ment þus þat in souereigne bounte
                                
                                  Nys none bot god neyþere he ne sche
                                
                                  Ey for verrey god þat nys bot one
                                
                                  What make ȝe so muche of Salomone
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                                  What þouhe he maad a temple goddes hous
                                
                                  What þouhe he were riche and glorious
                                
                                  So maade he a temple of fals goddes
                                
                                  Who myht do a þinge þat more for-bode is
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                                  Parde als faire as ȝe his name implastre
                                
                                  He was a lichoure and a ydolastre
                                
                                  And in his elde he verrei god for-soke
                                
                                  And ȝif þat god na hadde as seiþe þe boke
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                                  yspared him for his fader saake he scholde
                                
                                  Haue lost his reigne sauner þat he wolde
                                
                                  .I. sett nouht of al þe velany
                                
                                  þat ȝe of wemmen write a botterflie
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                                  .I. am a womman nedes most .I. speke
                                
                                  Or elles swel til myn hert breke
                                
                                  For þeþins he seide þat we be Iangelers
                                
                                  As euer mote .I. brouke boþe my tresses
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                                  I schal spare for no curtesie
                                
                                  to spek him harme þat wolde vs velanye
                                
                                  Dame quod þis pluto be no longer wroþe
                                
                                  .I. ȝeue it vp bot seþen .I. swore myn oþe
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                                  þat [I] wolde graunt him his siht aȝeine
                                
                                  My worde schal stande þat warne .I. þe certeine
                                
                                  .I. am a kinge it sitte me nouht to lye
                                
                                  And .I. quod sche a queene of fayre

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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 350
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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